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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
World
Rohit David

US-China Trade Pact Teeters: Rare-Earth Exports Threaten Explosive Rift

China’s delay in rare-earth exports threatens to sink a US trade pact, hitting defence and tech hard. Can Trump fix this, or is a trade war inevitable? (Credit: X / Nicolás Fuster 🇦🇷🇪🇺 @mellamonicolas)

A fragile US-China trade truce, brokered in Geneva on 11 May 2025, is on the brink of collapse as China delays promised rare-earth exports to the US.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Beijing's failure to approve export licences for critical minerals, vital for semiconductors, electric vehicles, and defence systems, has sparked accusations of bad faith, threatening to reignite the trade war.

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